V.O2: Running Coach and Plans

VDOT O2

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About this app

Coaching app for athletes looking to take their running to the next level.

How it works

Athletes: Get an invite from a coach or choose one coaching option.

• Adaptive Trainer (14-Day Free Trial)
• Goal Race Plan
• Match with a Private Coach

Coaches: Start your 30-day free trial and learn how to manage your athletes at https://vdoto2.com/vdotcoach

Popular Features

• Assess your current running fitness (VDOT)
• Built-in personalized training paces
• Sync training calendar with GPS data from Coros, Garmin or Strava
• Sync workouts/pace targets to Garmin for real-time guidance
• Adapt your training based on your improvement
• Work with your coach, communicate and adjust training

Truly Personalized

Unlike most running apps, VDOT knows you. It understands the type of runner you are, what you're training for, and how to maximize your efforts. It also gives you more control over your training, leveraging your feedback to deliver real-time data which fine tunes your training and leads to continuous progression. With fully automated, truly personalized and highly-adaptive training, VDOT helps you achieve measurable improvement — all in an effort to make you the best runner you can be.

Intelligent Training

With a focus on training over tracking and coaching over running, VDOT offers access to the highest quality, Olympic-style training for runners of all levels-right from any mobile device. Designed to help runners train correctly and more intelligently, VDOT elicits maximum benefit while reducing the required effort. These high-quality workouts promote healthy, responsible, and beneficial sessions while simultaneously preventing overtraining.

Olympic Pedigree

V.O2 was built from the foundation of a scientifically-validated training methodology. Based on former Olympian, author, and legendary running coach Jack Daniels’ exercise science principles, the methodology not only benefits runners of all ages and abilities when it comes to improving their running fitness but it also serves as the best measure of running economy across a variety of runners and events, making it an ideal way to compare performances. High-school, college, Olympic and non-elite runners have all trained, ran, and succeeded with the VDOT methodology.

-”Dr. Jack Daniels has had a bigger influence on training-for-running than anyone. He might be considered the Albert Einstein of the sport." - Runner’s World Magazine

Ratings and reviews

terrible. doesn't sync to Garmin. **EDIT**: After speaking with customer service, they were able to resolve the problem the same day! Customer service is great and they make the athlete a priority! Would give 1000 stars! The app has the ability to receive historical data and build workouts upon that, which is pretty innovative and seamless.

Structuring workouts at JD's pace is completely painless and the app imports those workouts to Garmin seemlessly. That's where it ends. There are no metric and the app combines multiple activities from the same day into one single activity. In other words, if you want to keep your race separate from your warmup or cooldown you simply can't. Dev says tge app is for coaches and this is a 'feature'. Overall, you don't need this app if you are self-coached because there are better alternatives.

Downloaded the app by accident but it looked nice so I decided to give it a try - but the app was bad. They make you sign up for the free trial before the sign up flow completes, you don't even know what you are getting. Then, the app crashed repeatedly when I tried to choose my birthday. I had to enter a fake birthday to continue. After I finally got in the app, it asked me to upgrade to premium and get a coach. I was unable to find any automatically generated training plan.

What’s new

* Bug Fixes